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Leisure and Tourism

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WasTe and urban deveLopmenT

oTher reCommendaTions Otesha Action Plan is a European action plan shared

by European CITYZENS to promote sustainable consumption in a daily life.

It brings together commitments made by civil society and proposed actions for:

• ocal organisations and civil society • local authorities / local decision makers • European decision makers

Local and national recommendations have been used as a base in each country to create specific recommendations while the European ones will be addressed to European deputies selected in each of our countries.

Recommendations have been settled in 7 fields:

Transport

Leisure and tourism Energy

Clothing Food

Waste and urban development Other recommendations 1 • 2 •

3 •4 • 5 •6 • 7 •

OTESHA ACTION PLAN

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For organisations and civil society:

1.1

Promote the use of bicycle, shared cars, trams, trains and buses, to avoid excessive use of cars.

1.1.1

Provide financial support for bicycles or electric bicycles equipment in cities

1.2.1

Take more consideration to bicycle tracks in urban transport planning

1.2.2

Stimulate the combined use of bicycle and public transport (allow bikes on subways, trams, trains and buses)

1.2.3

Organize a system of bicycle sharing in cities

1.2.4

For local, regional or national authorities

1.2

Create a ratio of bike paths to street kilometres or to numbers of unhabitants

1.3.1

Create a European train transport network funded by public resources

1.3.2

For European decision makers

1.3

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Encourage/support an agents network (stakeholders, travel agencies, hosting operators)

2.2.1

Stimulate modification in tourism, hosting organisations and change in sustainability (energy consumption, water, food, social approach)

2.2.2

For organisations and civil society:

2.1

Improve information and access to sustainable tourism within and outside of Europe

2.1.1

Promote responsible tourism

2.1.2

For local, regional, national authorities

2.2

For European decision makers

2.3

Decrease the VAT for responsible tourism agents

2.3.1

Support changes by integrating specific responsible use of tool, materials, or implementing processes such as compulsory requirements (under the framework of European programs and

“calls for projects proposals”)

2.3.2

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Counter the monopoly of energy production and promote decentralisation of production

3.1

For national and European decision makers

Each measure to reduce energy impacts on the environment mostly needs significant investments

3.3

Encourage a combination of local and global production systems in relation to the diversity of natural resources (ex. mapping wind or solar energy to optimize natural resources depending on the territories)

3.2

Many citizens are ready to make an effort to decrease their energy consumption. However to make it more accessible it is required to develop information and sensitization on a regional, national and even European level, as well as create fiscal deduction on renewable energy equipment

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For organisations, civil society, and local authorities

4.1

Promote second hand clothes shops

4.1.1

Promote collecting points and recycling

4.1.2

Inform citizens on organic and / or fair trade clothes

4.1.3

Promote textile industries which use primary goods grown in Europe (e.g. hemp) and set regulations according to the European policies on agriculture that are reducing tax on the production and processing of clothing, respecting biologic and fair trade criteria

At the European level

4.2

CLoThing 4

This section is essential as it encompasses European consumers basic needs. Analyses Research on bio, fair or local food market are growing and citizens are eager to promote such initiatives.

For organisations and civil society

5.1

Promotion of local and seasonal products.

Studies show that access, price of bio or fair products are often expensive therefore we request some commitments on different levels to encourage accessibility.

For local and regional authorities

5.2

Create “bio- fair checks” on the same model as cultural checks:

discounts allowing youth and citizens who have low incomes to have access to consume bio and/or fair trade products

5.2.1

Increase funds for initiatives of short chain food production (organisations where producers and consumers meet immediately)

5.2.2

Increase the use of a minimum percentage of green products in public purchases

5.2.3

Food 5

European agriculture policy should

5.3

Maintain current agriculture budgets, but concentrate on sustainable agriculture that include the participation and empowerment of farmers

5.3.1

Stimulate low input agricultural production (using less fertilizer, energy, water, etc.) of organic food

5.3.2

Stimulate local product consumption for local markets rather than focusing on intensive agriculture production for export

5.3.3

Integration and development of alternative agricultural processes that require less energy or that improve social or cultural practises)

5.3.4

Apply the precaution principle and right to information for consumers on GMOs (Genetically Modified Organisms) by:

5.3.6

Forbidding experimental cultures in open fields

5.3.6.1

Financing an independent research on GMOs

5.3.6.2

Making compulsory a percentage of the bill sticking that directly or indirectly include GMO

5.3.6.3

Stimulate alternatives to the import of soy as a foodstuff, and stimulate European produced proteins (lupines, clover, hemp, soy, etc.) for human and animal fconsumption

5.3.5

Food 5

For organisations and civil society

6.1 Develop awareness campaign on waste management at local and European levels

Urban development:

6.4 Creation of a European directive to implement a ratio of green spaces and parks to buildings and parking lots

For local, national and European level

6.2 Restrictive regulations on packaging

6.3 Regulations on authorised packaging and promotion of recycling systems (Including deposit fees on bottle and other recycled goods)

WasTe and urban deveLopmenT 6

On local and an European levels, we would like to reinforce compulsory lines in “calls on public market” including the necessity to use green products

7.1

In addition Europe should :

Develop external and independent audit, supported by public funds to certify bio or fair labels on the European scale

7.2

Adopt tax act of 0% VAT on goods from sustainable production (system of eco-boni and eco-mali for non sustainable products)

7.3

oTher reCommendaTions 7

We, European citizens are consumers; it is a common base between all our European countries. Consumption depends on resources but we are aware that a sustainable development is necessary for future generations.

Within the CityZen, 5 European partner organisations, dozens of local organisations have been involved in each country during this year 2010.

From their researches, the following restrictions to responsible consumption in Europe came out:

- The lack of successful awareness campaigns promoting responsible consumption in all its aspects - The high price of responsible consumption products - The over consumption in our society

- The use of the word “responsible consumption” in a fake marketing strategy for big companies

- The massive production of goods which are not

“green” (plastic, cars, etc.)

- The intensive use of cars / non green energies - The lack of public policies and investments in terms of responsible consumption

- Initiatives are quite sporadic

- Changing the people behaviours is a slow process CONTEXT

OTESHA ¹ ACTION PLAN

Including Otesha influence³, it is almost 17 organisations within 9 countries who have been working for a year.

European partners shared local/national needs on sustainable development, created firstly local recommendations and then some European ones during CityZen European convention on responsible consumption.

90 participants during 3 days in September 2010 shared local and national recommendations and created common propositions on a European level.

1 Otesha « alive dream » in Swahili language

2 www.city-zen.eu

3 www.otesha.fr

www.fekete-sereg.hu

www.cesie.org

ITALY Cesie

www.gulbene.lv

LATVIA guLbene disTriCT CounCiL

www.wervel.be

BELGIUM WerveL

Pistes-Solidaires’ aim is to promote the exchange and meeting of young people on an international scale and to encourage values such as sustainable and responsible development through non-formal education for all.

Pistes-Solidaires a pour mission de favoriser l’échange et la rencontre des jeunes.

Pistes-solidaires promeut l’éducation au développement durable, une éducation populaire, pour tous, par tous.

www.pistes-solidaires.fr

FRANCE pisTes soLidaires

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This communication reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.

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HUNGARY FekeTe sereg

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